AgileByExample 2024
2024-09-30..2024-10-02
Warsaw, Poland
[AgileByExample 2013, AgileByExample 2016, AgileByExample 2024, AgileByExample 2025]
who it's for
product managers, engineering managers, agile coaches, program managers, scrum masters, product owners, enterprise architects, hr leaders
topics
engineering visionary leadership; flux mindset and portfolio careers; small scale scrumming; program manager authority model; advanced facilitation techniques; peer supervision process; product organization value metrics; experiment-driven product development; risk appetite and classification; competency matrix versus RACI; agile product operating model; autonomous cross-functional teams
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Agile Evolution: Engineering Visionary Leadership | Sarah Gruneisen | 34m |
Argues that engineers lose creativity when agile becomes rigid meetings and prescriptive backlogs and offers concrete fixes: every story in your backlog must… | ||
| Leader in the Land of Dilemmas | Paweł Zajączkowski | 19m |
A sequence of concrete leadership choices with outcomes: managing 11–12 teams, trading off treat individuals by value versus strict equality, and preferring… | ||
| Mastering the Flux Mindset | Susanne Taylor, Sylvia Taylor | 41m |
Argues that constant, accelerating change (chart since 1980) demands a Flux Mindset and a portfolio career rather than ladder climbing, backed by lived… | ||
| Small Scale Scrumming | Konrad Gniazdowski | 16m |
Three cross-functional teams (three total) are coordinated by blocking a weekly mixed-session called trickster refinement where rotating reps refine, estimate… | ||
| Program Manager is the new Agile Coach (but better) | Tomasz Dzierżek | 16m |
A program manager with real authority drives change across dozens of projects, cancels redundant status meetings and frees 1.5 hours per person by decree, and… | ||
| The high cost of ‘cheap’ facilitation | Monika Malcherek | 35m |
Daily hour‑long end‑of‑quarter meetings with ~30 people including five execs produce thousands of dollars per month of negative ROI because all the data… | ||
| Peer Supervision Unleashed | Katarzyna Mydło | 19m |
At peka bank polski with product Cova hypoa a peer supervision program uses a four-part observation process: observer briefs focus, watches and takes detailed… | ||
| The Great Product Organization Equation | Tomasz Maj | 18m |
Research from a survey of ~4,000 plus interviews produces a simple equation: happy employees + mission clarity + measured value. Cross‑functional teams report… | ||
| Discussion panel | Ewa Koprowska | 50m |
Panel argues the original intent was to be agile (make change easy) not just deliver faster, cites Snowbird naming story and warns that managers optimize… | ||
| Agile Playground: The Power of Experimentation | Stefan Stojković | 19m |
Team wipes processes to run short experiments around the new official Tetris mobile game, claiming faster adaptation without adopting a named framework… | ||
| Risk management culture: asset or hassle? | Joanna Kaczyńska | 39m |
Defines risk vs uncertainty by three dimensions—knowledge level, time horizon, relevance—and classifies risks as elephants in the room, Black Swans, gray… | ||
| Why creating a RACI matrix is not a good idea | Jaroslaw Łojko | 19m |
A RACI matrix implementation that starts as a lightweight framework becomes a rigid 25+‑role manual after months of meetings, causing more confusion, slower… | ||
| AI & HR | Craig Larman | 43m |
Claims that LLMs (ChatGPT, Gemini) already generate data‑science analyses, UI critiques, business requirements, Cucumber acceptance tests and working Python… | ||
| Applying scaling techniques for product management | Anna Radzikowska | 37m |
Project is budgeted for 15 months with a 5-person core team (2 BAs, 2 devs, 1 part‑time PM/PO) and initial scope of 10 reports; process uses Jira and Excel… | ||
| Agile leadership and technical mastery, a harmonious alliance | Marcin Kępka | 18m |
Team moves a UX designer into the squad, gets one backend liaison and coaches an architect to share knowledge, resulting in partial success; dual‑track… | ||
| How product organisation at Allegro made intl. expansion possible | Jan Pastwa | 19m |
Allegro claims product-team autonomy and small “two‑pizza” teams enable a cross‑country launch without pausing Polish sales: a phased migration from a PHP… | ||
| The Neuroscience Behind Perceived Value | Joanna Płaskonka | 19m |
Claims that 95% subconscious drives purchase decisions, links value to specific brain parts (prefrontal cortex, amygdala, hippocampus and nucleus accumbens)… | ||
| Moving to a Agile Product Operating Model | Dave West | 01h 04m |
Argues that moving from project thinking to a product operating model lets organizations make clear investment and ownership choices and stop saying yes to… | ||
| Dopamine in Work Environment: Friend or Foe | Marta Borkowska | 32m |
Dopamine splits into two actionable circuits: dopamine of anticipation (novelty-driven spikes that fuel quick starts, social‑media style scrolling, addiction… | ||
| Is it possible for enterprise architects to be really agile? | Wojciech Ogórek | 40m |
Claims that enterprise architecture can be agile by treating architecture as a product and giving the lead EAs a nine‑person product team with PO empowerment… | ||
| Your mission matters! | Stanisław Matczak | 14m |
Claim: finding a clear personal mission stops the spiral of doubts and raises motivation more reliably than waiting for external change. Two concrete exercises… | ||
| Autonomous Teams | Jakub Nabrdalik | 21m |
Argues that microservices succeed only when six of nine recommended changes are about culture not tech, not just architecture, citing ThoughtWorks and AWS… | ||
| Advanced Software Teaming | Woody Zuill | 01h 04m |
Claims that whole-team Mob Programming (everyone at one computer — coding, testing, designing with the Product Owner) cuts queuing and inventory, creates… | ||
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